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Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Famous Chinese brands have not yet reached many European or American stores, but that is going to change, writes Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek, although not overnight. He disagrees with the US journalist James Fallows who says that unlike US companies, Chinese firms have beenRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Real estate are the main source for local governments to get money, and the lingering crisis because of excessive spending might be hard to solve, says Victor Shih in NPR. China is having a property crisis of its own, much different from that in theRead More →

Image via Wikipedia The failure of Barbie in Shanghai, costing toy producer Mattel, has been told very often. Shaun Rein explains in Forbes why the strategy was good, but failed in the execution,. With its retail sales growing by 15% in China in 2009 Mattel was right to look thereRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Despite a larger number of setbacks, China will continue its expansion abroad, tells Shaun Rein the Reuters Insider.China still has an enormous ability to expand, says Rein: “They are cash rich and very agressive.” He expects China could do very well in the high-endRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Most countries might be happy these days with double-digit growth of its GDP, in Beijing alarm bells when off when the government figures indicated a growth of 10.7 percent over the fourth quarter of 2009 while inflation is picking up. “There is too much moneyRead More →

The Google debate on China has opened the debate on how the country censors the internet again, but Shaun Rein asks in Forbes for a reality check: the internet in China is freer than ever, he says. Seven years ago Chinese citizens couldn’t access The New York Times. A yearRead More →

Branding is high on the agenda of many companies in China, but its works mostly with the top-layer of rich Chinese, says Hurun-founder Rupert Hoogewerf to Bloomberg. In the Hurun magazine Hoogewerf lists their preferences: holidays in the US, watches from Cartier and Philippe Paket, they smoke Chunghwa and flightRead More →

Image via CrunchBase Google committed an act of war against China, says Shaun Rein in Forbes in the third day after the US firm announced it would leave China after its Gmail service got attacked by what other says would be Chinese forces. The media upheaval still shows no signRead More →

We are in the second day after Google announced it might withdraw from China after massive attacks on email account of human rights activists. While not much more information has come to the surface, the main question that was posed yesterday did not get an answer: Is Google packing itsRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Famous economists take very different positions on the questions whether China’s economy is a bubble or not. In Forbes Shaun Rein explains James Chanos China has no bubble. Making some bucks on telling the world about China’s demise, economically or otherwise, has been partRead More →

Shanghai Fantake via Flickr Going against the comments of many fellow economic analysts, Arthur Kroeber simply does not believe China is even close to a real estate bubble, he tells the Washington Post. There is still too much room to grow, he says.The Washington Post: Arthur Kroeber, a Beijing-based analyst andRead More →